Grape Juice Quotes

“Feeling this way about someone tastes like vanilla ice cream. It's juvenile and innocent—even though, the reality is, it can burn holes through your teeth if you're not careful.”
― Eliza Dumais, Grape Juice: An 831 Stories Romance

“I can't explain to Ruby what, exactly, I want—but the undeniable thing is that I want. And I lack the discipline to put an expiration date on something that feels so rare, so sincere. That tastes so good.”
― Eliza Dumais, Grape Juice: An 831 Stories Romance

“I thought a lot about how we don't have a grieving ritual for breakups. There's no funeral march, no memorial service, no paperwork even. When it happens, we're sort of without a proper place to store that genre of loss.”
― Eliza Dumais, Grape Juice: An 831 Stories Romance

“How special it is to taste things, I think. How bizarre that we spend so much time forgetting to do so.”
― Eliza Dumais, Grape Juice: An 831 Stories Romance

“Maybe it is easier to bar myself from believing I can have the real thing. That way, the absence won't hurt. That way, the desire won't terrify me.”
― Eliza Dumais, Grape Juice: An 831 Stories Romance

“There's something so rich about the longing—all the more savory and outsized because it's an impossibility. I have no need to complicate matters by integrating reality.”
― Eliza Dumais, Grape Juice: An 831 Stories Romance

“I think I forgot what it felt like to want things. Maybe wanting is the opposite of apathy—it's so vulnerable to want.”
― Eliza Dumais, Grape Juice: An 831 Stories Romance

“I think something switched off, or malfunctioned in my brain. It was like I'd spent too long feeling everything in caps lock, so instead, it all went mute. And it hasn't gotten loud again, yet.”
― Eliza Dumais, Grape Juice: An 831 Stories Romance

“I'm always scared that that was my best thing. I'm glad I got to have it for a little while but I'm not sure you're allowed to have it twice.”
― Eliza Dumais, Grape Juice: An 831 Stories Romance

“I have no patience for the specific malaise of apathy—especially when it belongs to me. I'd been looking for a jolt. I didn't know how to trigger one all on my own.”
― Eliza Dumais, Grape Juice: An 831 Stories Romance